Food & drink

honey

Source:*medъProto-Slaviccertain

Russian and Polish turned e into o before a hard consonant (мёд, miód); Ukrainian, Czech and BCS kept med.

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English

honey

Polish

miód

mjut

Cognate· distant (Indo-European)Same source — the sound laws connect them.

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BCS script

Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
мёдmëd
mʲotinherited
Ukrainian
медmed
mɛdinherited
Polish
miód
mjutinherited
Czech
med
mɛtinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
medмед
medinherited
English
honey
Distant English relative: mead — English mead, the honey drink, shares the Indo-European root of *medъ.